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Product news: Polish designer Oskar Zieta will launch a collection of modular furniture made from Meccano-like perforated steel plates at MOST in Milan next month (+ slideshow).

Each piece of furniture in Oskar Zieta’s 3+ collection is constructed from hollow plates of white, black or grey powder-coated steel or raw galvanised steel, which is suitable for outdoor use.

As well as enabling users to combine elements in many different configurations, the holes across the metal surfaces help to keep laptops cool and cables neatly organised.

The plates can be used horizontally as office, workshop or dining tables, or vertically for displays and shelving systems or as magnetic boards.

They come in four thicknesses, with the thickest having three rows of holes on its edges and the thinnest having none.

Other elements include wooden and metal legs to build tables and shelves and an L-shaped sheet that can be mounted on a table as a space divider.

The furniture can be built with the connectors designed by Zieta or with standard screws, so users can take the pieces apart and make their own combinations.

The furniture is already in production and will be presented next month in Milan at the MOST exhibition and at EDIT by designjunction from 9 to 14 April – see all news and products from Milan this year.

Zieta’s previous work includes a bulging metal stool formed by inflating its legs with fluid – see all projects by Oskar Zieta.

Other metal furniture we’ve published includes Thomas Heatherwick’s aluminium furniture made by the world’s largest extrusion machine and a series of tables and shelves on 3D-printed metal legs – see all design in metal.

Photographs are by Jedrzej Stelmaszek, Paulina Sikorska and Zieta Prozessdesign.

Here’s some more information from the designer:

3+ Collection

The office, workshop, kitchen, lounge room and retail are all stationary, yet characterised by mobile function. They tend to follow the contemporary user.

3+ technology reinvents its function every day with every interaction. It becomes an ultra-light construction for the every day, thanks to its strong, innovative and minimalistic features, which you create. In our collection we offer chairs, tables, shelving, but we don’t want to categorise them as office or dining chairs, workshop or kitchen tables, because it is you, that creates their function. Thanks to a simple system of connectors and versatile elements you are able to give each product a new context, function or even create new ones from scratch. Each perforation is a starting point to satisfy your personal needs, accommodating products to new situations and tasks.

3+ is work, hobby and leisure. It is customisation, lifestyle, space – it’s always current, and ready to answer the requirements of change.

Dynamic businesses in which teams outgrow space and new tasks require constant adaptation of office arrangements require flexible and modular solutions. 3+ offers the stability of steel construction required by warehouse or workshop context, as well as the aesthetic appeal essential in a modern office or retail space. While creating the ultra-light, flexible, modular and mobile 3+ system we considered studies about the nomadic lifestyle of the modern human. In the more intimate personal sphere we continue to further exploit our access to mobility, we expand our professional skills allowing us to take on new more challenges. This entails moving from place to place as well as changing our immediate personal space.

Milan 2013 – Salone Internazionale del Mobile

During the Salone Internazionale del Mobile this year Zieta Prozessdesign, design and engineering studio established by Oskar Zieta, will be launching in the exhibition space at the MOST museum at Olona in Milan a new system of modular furniture 3+. This is not only name of collection, but especialy a new innovative technology of stabilisation of thin metal sheets 3+. At the stand also will be present ultralight and bionic furniture made in FiDU technology invented by Oskar Zieta too. You will can take a part in production process and make your own product!

We will exhibit our products at designlink.pl as part of EDIT at designjunction too.

Exhibition and Guide on Polish Design, Milan Salone 2013 at Edit by designjunction is organized by the Creative Project Foundation in partnership with Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Poland.

Zieta exhibition at MOST is Powered by Adam Mickiewicz Institute/www.culture.pl

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Designer Seden Craig said it best- “this ain’t your granddaddy’s rocking chair!” The skeletal design was inspired by slatted furniture as well as topography models making it a unique, modern twist on the conventional rocker that’s defined by linear wood slides contrasted with a white facade on top. It’s an interesting alternative to both the outdoor adirondack or indoor rocker.

Designer: Seden Craig

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These cabinets by Swedish designer Mathieu Gustafsson and furniture maker Niklas Karlsson are inspired by the use of woven rattan and brass clasps in vintage handbags.

The cabinets are the first pieces in Grand, a collection launched by Mathieu Gustafsson and Niklas Karlsson at Stockholm Furniture Fair in February.

Based on a classic handbag made by Swedish travel and accessories brand Palmgrens, the Light cabinet is made from woven rattan set into a grid of rectangles inside a white or grey birch frame.

The white pine Lock cabinet sits on raised legs and has a brass clasp to keep the doors closed.

The collection will be shown at Ventura Lambrate in Milan from 9 to 14 April. The cabinets aren’t in production at present but can be ordered directly from the designers.

Other cabinets we’ve featured include one with a rough surface that resembles choppy ocean waves and another that opens up like a giant sewing box – see all cabinets.

Photographs are by Petter Cohen.

Here’s some more information from the designers:

Grand is a high-end furniture initiative created by designer Mathieu Gustafsson and cabinet maker Niklas Karlsson. The name Grand alludes to both the design and the craftsmanship ambition in the project. All production is made in Sweden by cabinet maker Niklas Karlsson under the artistic direction of designer Mathieu Gustafsson.

The ambition of Grand is to create furniture without compromising on craftsmanship, design or material. In a sentence: contemporary design with classic high-end craftsmanship.

In the design process, every material is chosen for its aesthetic and functional qualities.The right material in the right place, regardless of parameters such as pricing or current trends. Everything is subordinated to the artistic vision and the correct craftsmanship methods. “When creating our own brand we didn’t want to compete in low pricing, we rather wanted to contribute in artistic expression and quality.”

Above: the Palmgrens rattan bag

The first series of furniture, launched at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, are cabinets designed with details inspired by handbags. Many accessory details have parallels to the world of furniture and allow themselves to be translated into other forms with similar functions. It’s when these details are incorporated into a new context that they become interesting objects.

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Product news: tables in this collection by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka have tops that appear to balance precariously on angled stands (+ slideshow).

Rather than standing upright, the oblong supports are tilted so one bevelled corner touches the base while the tops of the Element tables teeter on another corner at the opposite end.

Manufactured by Italian furniture brand Desalto, the metal furniture inspired by crystal structures has been developed from experiments and research Yoshioka conducted when creating his Venus chair that he grew from crystals in 2008.

Most models in this collection have a single stave, but larger tables have two crossing supports for added stability and stands for taller side tables consist of one bar on top of another.

The range includes side tables, desks and dining tables, all of which come in black.

Desalto will exhibit the tables in Milan next month, at the same time as Zaha Hadid will present limited edition marble tables and twisted auditorium seats, and Ross Lovegrove will unveil a concept car for Renault.

Yoshioka revealed a table that’s almost invisible in Milan last year, having been announced as Creator of the Year at Maison&Objet a few months prior to that.

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